. The American entomologist and botanist. 308 THE AMERICAN liarva ot the Thoas STV-alla\ir-tail — S. H. Sprague.—The worm which you send is rather rare inMissouri, and may be briefly described as of a mot-tled-brown color, and marked with pale grayish-whiteas follows: commencing in a band at sides of joint 1;running upwards and becoming less distinct to sub-dorsum of joint 4; occupying the back of joints 5, 8 and7, reaching to proleg on joint fl, but only to subdorsumon 5 and 7, and occupying nearly the whole of joints10, 11 and 12. This worm is the larva of the ThoasSwallow-tail I^Pa
. The American entomologist and botanist. 308 THE AMERICAN liarva ot the Thoas STV-alla\ir-tail — S. H. Sprague.—The worm which you send is rather rare inMissouri, and may be briefly described as of a mot-tled-brown color, and marked with pale grayish-whiteas follows: commencing in a band at sides of joint 1;running upwards and becoming less distinct to sub-dorsum of joint 4; occupying the back of joints 5, 8 and7, reaching to proleg on joint fl, but only to subdorsumon 5 and 7, and occupying nearly the whole of joints10, 11 and 12. This worm is the larva of the ThoasSwallow-tail I^PapiUo thoas, Linn.), our largest and mostmagnificent yellow arid black butterfly. Its tood-plantin the Southern Slates is the Orange tree; but youneitlier give your address nor (which we should like toknow) the plant from which you took the worm. Fung:us on AVild Plums — Suhsuriher, Picl-ens [Fig. ISO.]. Station, Miss.—Thelieculiar soft, yel-low, pithy growthwhich we herewithillustrate, andwhich you And ona small Bed Plumbusli, is some kindof fungus. We Andthe same growthhere during themonth of June onthe wild plum (Pru-nusaTnericana). Thisfungus ihies andblackens and re-mains on the treethrough the shall leave itsdetermination tofungologists, for thesimple reason thatwe have no time todevote to this inter-esting part of Na-tural History. liarva ot Clubbed Tortoise-beetle — A. , Sturgis, Mich.—The common Matrimony-vine isLycium vidgare, and the Tortoise-beetles which you Andupon it in company with their larvie, are really theabove-named species The larva; which you enclosedtransformed on the way, ami as we have never seen thislarva, we should like other specimens. The Matrimouy-vine belongs to the Solanum family, and your findingthis insect upon it, furnishes additional proof that, whileall other known Tortoise-beetles which have very flatlarva (genera Cassid
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